At least 26 dead in India train fire

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By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN


December 28, 2013 -- Updated 0710 GMT (1510 HKT)


New Delhi (CNN) -- At least 26 people were killed and eight injured after a compartment of a passenger train caught fire early Saturday in southeast India, officials said.


Some 60 passengers were on board when the fire broke out on a Bangalore-Nanded express train near the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh state, railway spokesman Anil Kumar Saxena said.


The fire began at about 3:15 a.m. local time in the B1 train compartment, railway official Sunanda Arun said.


The cause of the crash remains under investigation.


CNN's John Raedler contributed to this report.



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